Here is a clip to let guys know I am still a passenger car guy.
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Great consist!
Peter
MartyF,
Mixing of different era Electrical Engines, is not allowed, a great GG1 should never be paired with those other questionable modern AMTRAC Engines. You owe each guy on the OGR Forum $50.00 cash for subjecting them to unwarranted negative era harassment.
Great looking Train buddy!
All the best
PCRR/Dave
You may be wrong. The Amtrak GG-1 and AEM-7 ran at the same time in history. Please see the photo put up later in this post by Patenary. It shows G motors and AEM-7 running together.
Always like long passenger cars behind an engine nice
Mike LCCA 41432
Marty:
Fantastic. I hope to post some more videos from my end soon. E44s, an E33 (soon) and more AEM7s. I do not have the scenery you do however, for which I jealous.
I also don't have any GG1s but...
Sorry, PCRR Dave. 
GG1s #4884 (NJT), #4877 (PRR) and AEM7 #900 at the Gap curve. They were power for a DC NHRS trip to Strasburg. It is thought that this was the last GG1 powered train on the old Pennsy Main. Note that the #900 was one of two destroyed in the Chase, MD. accident, the other being the #903. Photo credit Bob Kise, 10/24/1981.
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That's great, Marty. i'm on an Amtrak jag myself: I have the Budd RDC cars coming, a GG1, and a Genesis. I model non scale though, but yours are beautiful!
My layout it a toy train layout with scale trains.
Marty Fitzhenry posted:My layout it a toy train layout with scale trains.
Yes, that's awesome. Because I set up on the floor I have 036 curves so can't do scale. Again, that's a beautiful consist.
I like the video!!! Those Chrome painted Amfleets look amazing!!
Nice! My first O Gauge set was Amtrak Genesis with Superliners since we had recently taken a cross-country trip on very same equipment.
Pete, those are plated by MTH not painted.
I don't have any videos of them, but I built an Amtrak "Texas Eagle" with two Genesis and the Superliners because that is where my wife and I first met Christmas season of 2003. It was actually on two runs, first from Chicago to Texas, she got on in St. Louis. Then, when I headed back to Chicago on the 31st, she also boarded in Houston and got off in St. Louis....... with a lot of talking and getting to find out about one another before the sun rose in Illinois. Yes, so we now have a set of Amtrak "Texas Eagle".....
Jesse TCA 12-68275
Nice video, Marty. My first love, well my second lest I get beheaded, is watching electrics under wire.
Good move Dan. Lets hope she does not read the forum. As a kid, I lived with my aunt and uncle in Pennsylvania. We had overhead wire everywhere in our area. I would spend all day watching the GG-1 and other electrics. My uncle was a huge train guy and after he got home at night, we went train watching. We lived in Hatboro and several times each summer we would ride the Reading MU cars from Hatboro to the Reading Terminal. When in Philly we would cross town to the 30th st station and watch the passenger trains pulling in with a GG-1 at the point. Overhead wire was in my blood.
From the Boston end, we took the train to New Haven where the diesel would leave the train and a GG-1 put on as we were now in wire country. I will always remember the instant starts from the G motors.
My life with overhead wire continued as I got to ride the North Shore while at Navy boot camp. All the midwest main lines went by our camp. Whenever a train went by when we were marching, I could not resist a look. Many times I had to pay for not keeping eyes forward by being rewarded by having to do extra push ups. It was worth it all.
Not many years ago, the line from New Haven to Boston got overhead wire for the coming Acela trains. My home today is down the street from the main and I get to see the Acela and other electrics many times a day. Dotty and I get to ride the Acela often and it is a ride that will put a smile on every train lovers face.
Marty, what kind of cars did that GG1 pull into Philly? Were they phase 1 Amtrak, old Pennsy cars, or something else?
Marty Fitzhenry posted:You may be wrong. The Amtrak GG-1 and AEM-7 ran at the same time in history. Please see the photo put up later in this post by Patenary. It shows G motors and AEM-7 running together.
That may very well be. But in the toy train world, the GG1 rides alone!
Thats a wonderful looking Amtrak consist, Marty. But you get two minutes in the penalty box for roughing.
Dont say anything else, just get in the box!!
Hello Marty,
I did notice the figure in the NAVY uniform on the other side of the tracks!!!
Must be great to have an overhead wire setup like the one you show in the video.
Is that the overhead wire setup from MTH??,or did you make your own?
Thanks for sharing it with us!!!Those engines look great running together.
I think that is also what my new layout is going to wind up being also,A Toy Train Layout,running scale trains.
I like to run way too much to be worried about having everything exactly to scale, but I admire those guys who have the time and patience to do everything exactly to scale.
That's just not me. -Kenny Baughman
Looks great MARTY!!!! Thanks for sharing.
Kenny, the wire is Marklin from Germany. The poles are steel and I made a jig to hold the vertical to the bases. When I welded them together, they were in perfect alignment. Actually Mike W based his system on my design. His wire is longer and poles different. I tried to make my system look like Lionel gould have made it in 1954.
Thanks for sharing Marty.
I've taken the Acela to Boston several times. It is a great ride.
